Modification of Global Erythemally Effective Irradiance by Clouds

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 969-973

  Thiel, Stephan ^a   Steiner, Karl ^a   Seidlitz, Harald K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; RADIATION SCATTERING; SUNLIGHT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ERYTHEMA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0031154818     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb07956.x     Document Type: Article

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